"A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels" ( Publishers Weekly ).
But Gerald\'s idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-r.
Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions--including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur known as Fernet Branca. "A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels" ( Publishers Weekly )